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Nine new LePage vetoes include lawmakers’ changes to his mining and educator evaluation rules

1 hour ago AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage vetoed teacher evaluation rules that have been under development for more than two years as well as a bill …

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Man choking on coffee crashes pickup truck on I-395 in Brewer, loses washer and dryer

BREWER, Maine — A man driving a green pickup truck on Interstate 395 Friday afternoon apparently choked after taking a drink of his coffee, which …

CULTURE SHOCK (blog)

Historic Bangor home to be featured on HGTV’s “Who’s Lived In My House?”

A few years ago Renee Perron discovered that the property she’s lived on for the past ten years once belonged to a fascinating figure in …

Mary Mayhew, commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Maine to begin adding photos to public assistance cards in Bangor

Head-on crash kills Massachusetts couple in Waldoboro on Friday afternoon

WALDOBORO, Maine — A Massachusetts couple was killed in a …

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LePage outraged that Legislature didn’t fund drug enforcement expansion

The windshield of a police cruiser after a wild turkey flew into it on Thursday on I-95.

Flying wild turkey hits state trooper’s windshield on I-95

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Chris Strout of Bar Harbor takes practice runs with his paddle board at 6-Mile Falls on the Kenduskeag Stream on Friday while practicing for the 48th annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race.

High tides cause Kenduskeag canoe race to be shortened by 1 mile

Boston Marathon runner Dacie Manion (center) smiles in a Christmas photograph with, from left to right, Shelley Gilman, Chris Gilman, Ryan Gilman and Matt Gilman. Manion is running with a team from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to honor the life of Matt Gilman, who died last fall after a long fight with the disease.

Mainer running Boston Marathon to honor cancer victim from Old Town

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A South China woman was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Stone Road on Friday afternoon, state police said.

Vassalboro crash claims life of South China woman

POLL QUESTION

In this August 2010 file photo, Dennis Marble, director of the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, looks inside the facility's basement bedroom. Marble said Friday that the shelter is running out of food.

Bangor Area Homeless Shelter running out of food, says director

Spring turkey season suspended in northern Maine

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On Thursday, Dr. Orville Hartford showed a birthday party photo from the Oronoka restaurant in Orono, Maine. Hartford recently purchased the restaurant site and will be developing it as a doctor's office.

Oronoka remembered as plans move forward for $2 million medical facility in Orono

GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog)

Your best defense against Lyme disease is a plastic spoon

ANALYSIS

Eric Wilkinson (from left), external affairs representative for ISO-New England; Steve Hinchman, general counsel and senior vice president with GridSolar; Dan Kelley, vice president of Woodard and Curran's energy and power engineering group; and John Carroll, spokesman for CMP parent company Iberdrola USA discuss the future of electricity delivery in Maine during an E2Tech program Thursday at the Wishcamper Center at the University of Southern Maine.

CMP and solar energy advocates clash over what’s the smartest grid for Maine

‘We’ve got more cash than expenditures’ — Maine GOP says ethics panel’s website falsely creates impression of debt

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Republican Party officials are fending off …

Beejan Savabi (left), vice president of property management for New York-based Park 7 Group, which is proposing a 270-unit student housing development off Park Street in Orono, answers questions during the April 16 Orono Planning Board meeting, while design engineer Paul Monyok of WBRC Architects and Engineers in Bangor reviews his notes.

Aroma Joe’s coffee shop moving into vacant building in Orono near University of Maine campus

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A resident at the Ellen M. Leach Memorial Home holds a handful of plastic Easter eggs during the second annual Easter Egg Hunt at the retirement home in Brewer on Tuesday.

Never too old to hunt for Easter eggs

Monson No. 4 takes her last runs on Saturday at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum on Fore Street in Portland. The locomotive, built in 1918, needs a new boiler and museum officials don't know when it might be back in service.

Rail enthusiasts in Portland say goodbye to Monson No. 4

A geranium blossoms at Ledgewood Gardens and Greenhouses in Orrington on Tuesday.

Greenhouse owners ready to help Mainers forget winter, embrace spring

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Man choking on coffee crashes truck

Large chunks of ice hit against, but easily pass around the concrete piers of the old and new international bridges over the St. John River in Fort Kent.

Ice out on the St. John River

Memorable Orono restaurant site to become dermatology office

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Opinion

Debra Heintz, an inmate at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, talks recently during an "If Project" session about prison and the things she's missing. The project asks questions of inmates and former inmates, then carries the heartfelt responses to at-risk youth.

EDITORIALS

How Maine can shut the revolving door of incarceration for young adult offenders

The Maine Department of Corrections is pioneering a new incarceration approach for young adult offenders. Launched April 2 at Mountain View Youth Development Center in …

Sports

Bella Swan, a transfer from Salt Lake Community College, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball at the University of Maine

Junior college transfer Bella Swan joins UMaine women’s basketball team

ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine women’s basketball program has announced that it has received a National Letter of Intent from junior college transfer …

Health

VITAL SIGNS (blog)

Think twice before handling baby chicks

I made a trip to my local Blue Seal store on Thursday to pick up dog food. As I walked through the door, the gentle peeping …

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CMP and solar energy advocates clash over what’s the smartest grid for Maine

PORTLAND, Maine — Central Maine Power Co. says it needs to change a rate structure that no longer reflects its costs for delivering electricity. But …

Living

Acclaimed painter and part-time Maine resident Jon Imber dies

Jon Imber, an acclaimed Massachusetts-based painter who spent decades summering in Stonington, died Thursday, April 17, after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known …

Outdoors

Spring turkey season suspended in northern Maine

The spring wild turkey hunt has been suspended in portions of northern Maine, specifically Wildlife Management Districts 1-6, due to the effect of this year’s …